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Chapter II

ORGANIZATION OF SPECIALIZED AGENCIES UNDER DISTRICT-LEVEL PEOPLE’S COMMITTEES

Article 7. Specialized agencies organized uniformly in districts, towns and provincial cities

1. Home Affairs Divisions:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of organizational apparatuses; working positions; payrolls of civil servants and structures of civil servant ranks in state administrative agencies and organizations; working positions and structures of public employees based on professional titles and numbers of employees in public non-business units; salaries of cadres, civil servants, public employees and contractual laborers in administrative agencies and organizations as well as public non-business units; administrative reform; local administrations; administrative boundaries; cadres, civil servants and public employees; commune-level cadres, civil servants and part-time officers; associations and non-governmental organizations; state archives work; religion; youth work; and emulation and commendation.

2. Justice Divisions:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of law making and implementation, monitoring of law implementation, examination and handling of legal documents, control of administrative procedures, and law dissemination and education; grassroots conciliation, legal aid, child adoption, civil status, certification, state compensation and other judicial matters in accordance with law; and management of the implementation of the law on handling of administrative violations.

3. Finance-Planning Divisions:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of finance; planning and investment; business registration; integrated and uniform management of matters related to enterprises, cooperatives and private economy.

4. Natural Resources and Environment Divisions:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of land; water resources; minerals; environment; and sea and islands (for districts having sea and islands).

5. Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Divisions:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of employment; vocational training; labor; salaries; wages; social insurance (compulsory social insurance, voluntary social insurance and unemployment insurance); occupational safety; people with meritorious service; social protection; child protection and care; gender equality; and prevention and combat of social evils.

6. Culture and Information Divisions:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of culture; family; physical training and sports; tourism; advertising; post; telecommunications; information technology; radio and television broadcasting; press; publication; grassroots information; foreign service information; and information infrastructure.

7. Education and Training Divisions:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of education and training programs and contents; criteria for teachers and education administrators; criteria for school physical foundations and equipment and children’s toys; regulations on exams and grant of diplomas and certificates; and assurance of the quality of education and training.

8. Health Divisions:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of preventive medicine; medical examination and treatment and functional rehabilitation; traditional medicine and pharmacy; reproductive health; medical equipment; pharmacy; cosmetics; food safety; health insurance; and population and family planning.

9. Inspectorates:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of inspection, and settlement of complaints and denunciations within the scope of state management of district-level People’s Committees; performance of tasks and powers related to inspection, settlement of complaints and denunciations, and corruption prevention and control in accordance with law.

10. Offices of People’s Councils and People’s Committees or Offices of People’s Committees of localities where People’s Councils are not organized on a pilot basis:

To advise People’s Councils and People’s Committees on the operation of People’s Councils and People’s Committees; to advise chairpersons of People’s Committees on their direction and administration work; to provide information serving the management by, and operation of, People’s Councils, People’s Committees and state agencies in localities; to ensure physical and technical foundations for the operation of People’s Councils and People’s Committees; to directly manage and direct the operation of one-stop shop sections in charge of receiving dossiers from and returning dossier-processing results to individuals and organizations; to guide and receive dossiers from individuals and organizations in all fields falling within the competence of district-level People’s Committees, transfer dossiers to specialized agencies under district-level People’s Committees for processing, and receive dossier-processing results for return to individuals and organizations.

For ethnic minority people-inhabited districts which do not fully satisfy the criteria for establishment of ethnic affairs divisions, the Offices of People’s Councils and People’s Committees or the Offices of People’s Committees, for localities where People’s Councils are not organized on a pilot basis, shall advise and assist their People’s Committees in performing the state management of ethnic affairs.

For district-level administrative units having national boundary borderlines on land, sea and islands, the Offices of People’s Councils and People’s Committees or Offices of People’s Committees, for localities where People’s Councils are not organized on a pilot basis, shall advise and assist their People’s Committees in performing the state management of foreign and border affairs.

Article 8. Specialized agencies organized to suit each type of district-level administrative units

In addition to the 10 specialized agencies organized uniformly in all districts, towns and provincial cities as prescribed in Article 7 of this Decree, a number of specialized agencies shall be organized to suit each type of district-level administrative units as follows:

1. In urban districts:

a/ Economic Divisions:

To advise and assist People’s Committees of urban districts in performing the state management of small and cottage industries; science and technology; industry; and trade;

b/ Urban Management Divisions:

To advise and assist People’s Committees of urban districts in performing the state management of construction and architecture planning; construction investment activities; urban development; technical infrastructure of urban centers, industrial parks, economic zones and hi-tech parks (including water supply and drainage in urban centers, industrial parks, economic zones, hi-tech parks and building materials production establishments; urban lighting and greeneries; management of cemeteries, except martyrs’ cemeteries; management of urban underground construction; and management of shared use of urban technical infrastructure); housing; public working offices; building materials; and transport.

2. In towns and provincial cities:

a/ Economic Divisions:

To advise and assist People’s Committees of towns or provincial cities in performing the state management of agriculture; forestry; salt production; irrigation; fisheries; rural development; natural disaster prevention and control; food quality and safety for agricultural, forest, fishery and salt products; small and cottage industries; science and technology; industry; and trade;

b/ Urban Management Divisions:

To advise and assist People’s Committees of towns or provincial cities in performing the state management of construction and architecture planning; construction investment; urban development; technical infrastructure of urban centers, industrial parks, economic zones and hi-tech parks (including water supply and drainage in urban centers, industrial parks, economic zones, hi-tech parks and building materials production establishments; urban lighting and greeneries; management of cemeteries, except martyrs’ cemeteries; management of urban underground construction; and management of shared use of urban technical infrastructure); housing; public working offices; building materials; and transport.

3. In rural districts:

a/ Agriculture and Rural Development Divisions:

To advise and assist People’s Committees of rural districts in performing^- the state management of agriculture; forestry; salt production; irrigation; fisheries; rural development; natural disaster prevention and control; food quality and safety for agricultural, forest, fishery and salt products; development of household economy, rural farm economy, agricultural, forest, fishery and salt production cooperative economy in association with rural trades and rural craft villages;

b/ Economic and Infrastructure Divisions:

To advise and assist People’s Committees of rural districts in performing the state management of industry; small and cottage industry; trade; construction and architecture planning; construction investment activities; urban development; technical infrastructure of urban centers, industrial parks, economic zones and hi-tech parks (including water supply and drainage in urban centers, industrial parks, economic zones, hi-tech parks and building materials production establishments; urban lighting and greeneries; management of cemeteries, except martyrs’ cemeteries; management of urban underground construction; and management of shared use of urban technical infrastructure); housing; public working offices; building materials; transport; and science and technology.

4. Ethnic Affairs Divisions:

To advise and assist district-level People’s Committees in performing the state management of ethnic affairs.

Provincial-level People’s Committees shall submit the establishment of Ethnic Affairs Divisions to provincial-level People’s Councils for decision based on the criteria specified at Point a, Clause 3, Article 2 of the Government’s Decree No. 53/2004/ND-CP of February 18, 2004, on strengthening of ethnic affairs apparatuses under People’s Committees at all levels.

Article 9. Organization of specialized agencies on island districts

1. Based on the specific conditions of each island district, provincial-level People’s Committees shall submit to provincial-level People’s Councils for decision the numbers and names of specialized agencies under People’s Committees of island districts.

2. The number of specialized agencies under the People’s Committee of an island district must not exceed 10.